Katalonya'ya Selam

Salute to Catalonia Book Description A testimony to the Spanish Civil War. Narrating his experience as a volunteer in the militia during the Civil War, Orwell reveals the first revolutionary stages of the war in Barcelona and the terrible reality of the front. Salute to Catalonia tells the struggle of revolutionaries who came together from all over the world for the "last great cause" against Franco's fascist forces, while also revealing the conflicts on the Republican front. Although Orwell participated in this war as a revolutionary who believed in the cause, he adopted an extremely neutral and supra-ideological style in this work of 1938. "The volunteers who fought in Spain carried the memories of this war like a bad wound in their hearts. Because it was in Spain that people learned that they can be defeated even if they are right, that tyranny will yield to effort, and that sometimes there is no reward for courage." -Albert Camus (From the Promotional Bulletin)